should this teacher be teaching first-graders?
mom objects when teacher blows santa's cover
associated press published december 4, 2003
When I was 5 years old, my dad was explaining to my siblings how Santa comes down the chimney. I said sarcastically, "What?!? Well then how does he get out of the furnace?"
I was at that time content to let my brother and sisters hold on to the fantasy. When I was just a little bit older it dawned on me that not all adults are smart-ie, know what they are talking about. I kept my mouth shut in most of those cases, as a child arguing with adults is futile.
Mental chatter keeps me up most. The same happens in the day, but then I call it day dreaming. I've had insomnia for half my life, and been on various meds to solve the problem. Most had side effects that became unacceptable. I've been practicing a type of meditation to quiet my mind for almost two years now, I am content with that.
I really like being drug free. HAHA-"Say 'NO' to crack."
My mental chatter was in part caused by emotional issues-cognitive dissonance?-and stress. If your insomnia sets in for extended periods of time, monthes or years, you may develop psycho-somatic disorders. Most medications do not directly fix those problems; only relieve symtoms, and not 100%. IMHO, due to my personal experience and observing family members, addressing whatever mental issues you may have is a more viable solution.
Sweet dreams.
sorry if this has been posted already:.
doh.. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/8/62927/1.ashx.
anyway, repitition for emphasis.
"Jehovah's Witnesses have a constitutional right by and through the First and Fourteenth Amendments, respectively, to be free from a government order compelling the church to disclose its confidential and exclusive religious doctrines, teachings and beliefs," the motion states.
Do the JWs not disclose exclusive religious doctrines, teachings and beliefs when they go door to door? Granted, they do not dole out personal tidbits. Are there exclusive religious doctrines, teachings and beliefs that as JWs we never knew, because they were confidential?
Forgive me if this is not a cogent argument, but this has some validity, no?
i went to the 7th level.. the dante's inferno test has banished you to the seventh level of hell!.
here is how you matched up against all the levels:.
level | score.
The sweet light no longer strikes against your eyes. Your shade has been banished to... the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
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i have shipping issues....what can i say.
i need to ship cookies and pies to the base where my son is.
i thought about using the shipping store that is here locally.
Here's a thought; Instead of sending a finished pie, would sending a complete set of ingredients work? If you sent "instructions" along with pumkin and spices, do you think the guys could make it.
I ask because I've made pies before while camping, using a Dutch Oven.
Logistically this could be a no-go, but it might be worth checking.
for those with severe depression, with a potential of suiside!
reconsider!.
i did a recent post and didn?t catch, until recently, a person who posted, that apparently, has suicidal tendencies!
The main thing that kept me from suicide while an active JW and fading was the realization that I would be hurting family and friends.
In my head, I reversed the situation, and knew that I would be hurt/angry/pissed if one of my friends had commited suicide.
So what kept me alive was my own personal axiom: Death is not an option.
Skipping ahead a few years, I realized if I was going to get better, I had to want to get better. I had to choose to be better. Happiness can not be given to you. You have to find and define it yourself. Even as I write this I am not "Happy", but I am "content".
I then set about being honest with myself. Am I a good person? Generally yes. Am I likeable (by my own standards)? Yes.
Am I loveable? This one is tricky. Yes, but I didn't (don't?) understand (or feel) why. "Why?" is a big question in my mind for many things.
These issues are too complex to boil down to a simple fix. To get past suicide/negative emotions, onw has to change ones thinking pattern.
A side question that fascinates me is this: If your brain chemistry can affect how you think and feel, can changing how you think and feel affect your brain chemistry?
If for the sake of argument we assume that is true, how does one go about changing their thoughts to change their chemistry?
Sorry to have wandered afield here.
this may sound somewhat cynical, but i think the society has held to it's position on blood in order to create a never-ending supply of martyrs.
martyrs are needed for the society to hold up as shining examples of faith and devotion.
this sense of self-sacrifice helps them tow the line with regards to all of their insane rules.. wg
I think the WBTS has been commited on the blood issue for too long, and through too much. I do notthink that they could change this for any reasons-good or bad, doctrinal or practical.
I think that if they did change this, they would cause alot of their members to 'wake up'. It would be too great a shock to their belief systems.
did anyone catch the looney toons marathon the other week on boomerang?
i have to say that i always thought disney mickey mouse cartoons sucked and were never funny to me.
who would you rather watch -- mickey or bugs bunny?
Bugs Bunny. No contest. The other WBs are also good; Taz, Daffy, Yosemite Sam, Road Runner, Wile E Coyote.
Donald was the only Disney character of interest to me, but after a few cartoons he is boring. How long can an angry person with a speach impediment be funny?
Did anybody else notice how the Disney characters were sort of unaware of their surroundings and what was going on around them?
On the other hand, look at the Road Runner. Quantum physics mind over matter-call it whatever-he could go through a tunnel that was just painted on a wall. He refused to aknowledge gravity. Did you ever see Tiny Tonn Adventures? Gogo the Dodo was boldly strange, that was his thing.
The Muppets of Jim Henson are enjoyable too. The Swedish Chef? Those two old men in the balcony?
I don't like crank yankers because of the whole fake phone calls thing, but they have had some funny puupet skits too. I think their funniest was a Kermit like puppet and a Ms. Piggy like puppet going at it on what looked like Oscar's garbage can. Very funny.
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it would seem obvious that a low number of responders to a thread is indicative that the thread is of little or no interest to the other posters on the board.
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I don't post mostly because I have read another's post that said what I wanted to say, and they said it better. Good.
Soemtimes I feel lazy or apathetic about being heard.
If I want to discuss Thorium based nuclear reactors I don't join the Hockey chat forum.
Vitamins are good for us, we don't all take vitamins.
if A person-not you, just anybody-seeks validation by posting and getting posts, that is probably not healthy.
But then, what do I know, "I'm just a simple cave-man"-Phill Hartmann
did you leave the watchtower society and the true god ,too?.
i believe that god still helps some of the of the ones still "traped" in the org.
- god helped me greatly while i was still in.
I
rejoice for someone who has broken the chains of the society
and
I am happy for you, and I am glad you feel so happy
Awakened. If it works for you, run with it. If it allows YOU to love and feel loved, emmerse yourself in it; swim in it.
Did you leave the Watchtower Society and The True God ,too?
I left behind many things. I left an organization created by imperfect humans. More important to me, I abandoned an old, worn out, terribly inadiquite MAN-MADE CONCEPT of god.
Many of us have been flung so far from our roots, that we can not go back. Nor do we want to. And that works for us.
I do not seek forgiveness. I instead prefer to be responsible for ALL my actions-good and bad. If I need to make amends with another, I pray for the widom to see it, and the courage to cary it out. I also don't beat myself up when I fail in this regard.
I am not trying to invalidate YOUR beleifs or feelings; they belong to you. Many here might take offense at your seeming lack of empathy-due in large part to the nature of this medium. An important lesson I have learned in life is to NEVER devalue another person's pain(emotions?). It is their's. THEY feel it.
In your defense, I don't believe that you did so purposely. Only inadvertently.
Best to all.
Dark uncle
